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- Early morning in the oat fields of Carranco, Ramón runs into the dead body of his secret teenage love Adela. After he covers her naked body with his shirt, the gossip in town is that Ramón's girlfriend is been found murdered. Meanwhile, the Gitano (the gypsy) has left Carranco after a night of love and sex with Gabriela, suddenly interrupted by a flash light of an unknown bearer. That night at the local bar, where Justino, the town sheriff and other regular costumers discuss what should be done, La Amistad, pointing his flashlight to them shouts "el gitano murdered the girl". Marcelino, a bitter old man pushes Ramón to avenge his "girlfriend"'s murder. Now Ramón will have to prove to the people in his town that he's now a man or leave the town in shame.
- A comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, and overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.
- Seven "Word Attack" situations involving two people each.
- Augustin Dos Santos is back. He still wants to be an actor and, this time, he moves to the Chinese borough in Paris because he has decided to play in kung-fu movies. But poor Augustin has a morbid fear of physical contacts, so he meets Ling, a nice Chinese doctor. This is the second chapter of Augustin's epic life...
- Jaume, a sick professor of literature, decides to leave his heritage "an essay on the book of Ramón Llull" to his best student David, a hustler.
- Javier's life gets complicated when a something unexpected turns up in his car's trunk.
- Based in 1936 Spain, Moncho is an outcast at school but is able to form a strong bond with his outspoken teacher. When fascism arrives to Spain, his teacher is considered an enemy of the regime & arrested.
- The Peruvian army captain Pantaleon Pantoja, a very serious and efficient officer, is chosen to set up a special service of 'visitors' to satisfy the sexual needs of the soldiers posted on remote jungle outposts.
- A month before he's to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions Carmen, Carman's friend Cinta, and his friend Luis who introduced him to Carmen. Cinta tells Antonio the man's first name. Carmen tells him that the man meant nothing to her, and that the photograph was taken before she met Antonio. She loves Antonio and sets out to wipe the photograph from his mind through exuberant sex, but her ploy backfires and Antonio remains fixated. Slowly he finds out about the man, and about Carmen's past. Will jealousy consume this couple or can they find a way to kill the green-eyed monster?
- When three estranged sisters, Gloria, Ana and Lidia, meet up again on the death of their mother, Adela, they find themselves obeying her somewhat eccentric last wishes. Though their mother has spent the last 30 years without uttering a single word, she has left very clear written instructions of what she wants done after her death. Her ashes are to be divided in three, and delivered to three different people: their mother's best friend, Rafaela; Gloria's childhood companion, Santos, and finally the three girls' fugitive father, Joao. To do so, the three women must leave the urban cocoon of Madrid and head for their childhood home in the remote hinterland of Galicia. Gloria, single and 47, whose only interest is dancing boleros, Ana, a sophisticated, high-class prostitute, and Lidia, pregnant for the first time at 34 by a married man, make difficult travelling companions, accompanied as they are by three urns containing Adela's remains. As they move nearer their own past, the journey becomes the key which opens family secrets, bringing emotional discovery and reconciliation.
- Aspiring musician Walter from Madrid has many troubles. After finding a videotape he learns something that will alter his whole life and put his Madrid problems on hold: a Cuban woman confesses that she's his mother and she's waiting for him in Havana. Walter goes to Havana to investigate this, and the plot thickens with the addition of the mother's daughter and a Spanish airline crew member.
- Nino and Bruno are two comedians who reach the heights of success with their duo act, turning them into huge TV celebrities. However, the hate between them grows as fast, and as much, as their fame.
- In June 1946, Stalin invites the Russian exiled from the 1917 Revolution to return home. When the ships comes ashore in Odessa, the passengers are divided in two groups and one of them is executed. Among the survivors are Dr. Aleksei Golovin, his French wife Marie and their young son. Marie is accused to be a spy, her French passport is torn up and Aleksei accepts to move to Kyiv with his family to save her. They are sent to a room in a communal house and soon Marie befriends the super, an old woman who speaks French. But she is denounced and killed by the government agents. Marie feels guilty and brings her grandson Sasha Vasilyev, who will be evicted, to live in her room with her family. Marie wants to return to her family in France, but Aleksei explains that they are imprisoned in Russia. Marie tries a contact with the leftist French actress Gabrielle Develay to ask for help to leave the USSR. While Marie gets distant from her husband, she gets closer to Sacha, who is a great swimmer and the only chance to Marie contact her family.
- Beldar and Sonja, a couple of thieves belonging to the legendary world of sword and sorcery, steal a precious stone shaped like a human heart in the gloomy crypt of the Order of the Thousand Eyes, an evil sect of powerful wizards. When fleeing the scene they realize the gem is cursed. After losing consciousness, Beldar awakens in another world, into the body of a sixteen year old teenager in Madrid eaten by acne.
- Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still waiting, living with the pain of the death of his son.
- A comedy about sex and love from four women's eyes.
- Sofia receives the news of her mother's suicide with apparent calmness. From this moment on, her husband Eduardo finds her behavior suspicious, and hires a detective, Lamarca. Lamarca is a lone investigator obsessed by a recurring dream. He tries to figure out this mysterious dream by involving those connected with his current investigation in it.
- This film traces the return of a poet, Manuel, to his tiny hometown in northern Spain. This town, Higuera, is about to be flooded by a reservoir in a matter of days. The film examines Manuel's relationship with his family and friends, revealing secrets along the way.
- In the small town of Santa Eulalia, singles organize a party attended by a coach of women marriages. Damián, Alfonso and Carmelo will seek to establish a relationship with Patricia, a Dominican girl, Marirrosi, a nurse from Bilbao and Milady, a young Cuban.
- Oliver, an 11-year-old boy thrown out of his home by his abusive stepfather, joins a gang of street children and is exposed to narcotics, violence and sexual predators, and the world of crime seems to be the only road available.
- Ivan goes to live with his father, Vicente, the stationmaster, in a small remote village inland Portugal. People go about their chores, each wrapped in their own life. Gloria lives with a career and seems to be slipping away from everything and everyone. Set apart from everything is the secret refuge, the only safe place on the planet. Ivan is happy to share Gloria's secret, a small heaven hidden in the river, below the water that separates the worlds. One feels like staying here.
- Goomer is an intergalactic space trucker who lands in an unknown planet and finds it impossible to leave. After a long intergalactic trip his robot assistant wakes Goomer - they are approaching a planet that shows signs of life. Goomer sees the possibility of making business and rapidly getting rich since nobody there knows his reputation. Goomer hopes to become a celebrity as the first human to landed on this planet. But nobody really cares for him - at first.
- Francisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII. He's living with his much younger wife Leocadia and their daughter Rosario. He continues to paint at night, and in flashbacks stirred by conversations with his daughter, by awful headaches, and by the befuddlement of age, he relives key times in his life, particularly his relationship with the Duchess of Alba, his discovery of how he wanted to paint (insight provided by Velázquez's work), and his lifelong celebration of the imagination. Throughout, his reveries become tableaux of his paintings.
- Marga is having a streak of bad luck. She tries to regain her self-confidence through her friendship with Rosa, but love interests again create conflict. While developing a relationship with a handsome gay sculptor 10 years her junior, Iñaqui, she starts to improve. Marga and Iñaqui go beyond friendship, but are frustrated by their limitations. Ultimately, the two might have to settle for an "impossible" love relationship as their unique best road to happiness.
- Ten men,ten brothers in arms who fought together in the Portuguese Colony of Angola during the colonial war,gather together every year to dinner and remember those brave times of war...this year, the presence of Nina, a prostitute and a hunt that end in a shootout, will call their instincts and traumatic pasts for one last mission...
- Sara is an orphan child in a world destroyed by an alien invasion. Leaving behind her innocence, Sara unleashes the power of her psychokinetic abilities to survive the attacks of the invaders and free the human survivors.
- Lola's boyfriend asks her if she believes in forgiveness, hands her a card with a name on it and shoots himself in the head. This sends Lola on a quest to find out what happened as well as solve the murder of her parents. The name on the card leads her into the shadowy world of the the Chinese Triad in Spain. She is helped along the way by a fearful young man who has an odd fascination for news clippings about the Chinese. She is drawn into this world and discovers her answer and loses more than she imagined.
- Patrícia, wife of Daniel Gil - Cohen, lives in a dwelling luxury in a big city with Dame Ester, her mother-in-law and owner of a steel foundry. Esteban, older brother of Daniel, an important politic of the Interior Ministry also lives with them. When blackmail made by drug dealers reveals the turbulent and dark past of Patrícia, the fragile balance of the Family is called into question. Esteban decides to reveal his old love for his sister-in-law. At the same time, the foundry threats to go bankrupt and Dame Ester asks for help to her third son, Santana. Will he be able to save the situation...?
- Renato is a very effeminate gay man who is nicknamed "Marlene" in honor of Marlene Dietrich. Because of a promise he made to his sick grandmother, he must try the opposite sex at least once. He thinks he has a chance with Ginevra, the lesbian leader of the rock band "The Fucking Sisters". She has just found out that her girlfriend cheated on her with a man, so she decides to find out how it feels to have sex with a man.
- Amanda has the gift of prophecy since she was a child. This unique gift causes the interest, fear and rejection of teachers, psychologists, journalists, friends and family.
- Two middle-aged lovers have been involved on and off for over twenty years. Angie's younger daughter Winnie connects with Laurent, who has strongly bonded with the Richard Berry character. From the outset, the younger couple is as erratic as the older couple in their love affair. Will these two relationships continue chronically? What will it take to achieve a happy medium for a stable, long-lasting relationship?
- Joao sells video tapes in road bars between Portugal and Spain. One day he finds a middle aged woman in the middle of nowhere. Somebody is looking for her and she has to escape to Lisboa. But what is the secret of this woman? Why does she want to go to Lisboa?
- Documentary whose theme is aspects of the life of Jorge Luis Borges.
- Alberto and Miguel have planned to steal a lot of money from their old pal Claudio...
- This film about contemporary life in Lisbon concerns an Irish woman, Cathy, who dearly loves her Portugese lawyer husband Pedro. Though, unbeknownst to her, he engages in one tryst after another. Cathy soon finds herself trying to help a young delinquent get off heroin, while the youth's desperate mother joins a weird religious cult. In other segments, an elderly man is nearly driven mad with grief at the loss of his granddaughter in a train station, while a down-and-out jeweller ushers the young girl to a hotel room.
- Two men find an old Indian who has been nearly beaten to death. But before he dies, he entrusts them with an Inca map that describes the location of a hidden treasure, for which they will have to fight to find it before anyone else.
- The usually absent father of a chubby kid shows up to take him on a road trip.